Name: Ali Nikamooz

Assignment name: Quiz 3

Course and section number:
Seminar for elementary and
middle school mathematics-
621
Date of submission:
March 9,2011
1) A. Level 0: visualization, to explore how shapes are alike and
different and to learn properties of shapes but only in an
observational manner.

Level 1: analysis: focuses on a class of shapes.

Level 2 : informal deduction: the objects of thought are the

properties of shapes.

Level 3: deduction: the objects are relationship among

properties of geometric objects.

Level 4: Rigor: the objects are deductive axiomatic systems for

geometry.

1) B. A major goal of the pre-k-8 curriculum must be to advance

students level of geometric thought. It is important for their
thinking to have grown to at least level 2 by the end of the
eighth grade.
Almost any activity can be modified to span two levels of
thinking, even within the same classroom.

2) A. If i wanted to explain the Pythagorean formula to my

students i tell their parents that i use a activity to show that i
reach to a numerical conclusion and through the activity
students conclude that in any right triangle, a^2+b^2=c^2

2)b. for example we want to find the area of a parallelogram

then in a activity i ask students to cut from height of one
segment of parallelogram and it makes a triangle and paste
it to the other leg so that we have made a rectangular,
Therefore we know the area of rectangular so we reach to
this conclusion that height×base is the area of parallelogram.